St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-13
The Exposition Booming
Along in a Satisfactory
Sort of Manner.
A Police Outrage That Has
Excited a Good Deal Of
Indignation.
An Addison, Mich, Man Named
Frank A. Thamer Arrested
for Forgery.
The Plans for Pillsbury Hail.
Editor Blethen in Hot
Water Again.

A peculiarly about the crowds that
visit the Exposition daily is they seem
to move around in an aimlesS hop
hazard manner and thereby miss seeing
many things they would otherwise OBJ.
serve if little system were adopted
The main floors are, of course, given up
to factory and store exhibits. The
ground floor is devoted to machinery
and all pOnderous articles. The an
neXeS contain the managerial and press
headquarters. On the next floor the
government exhibit is placed and on the
third floor directly above this is
the restaurant. Then, of course. there
is the art department, with two promi-
nent entrances, and yet it is quite COM
mon to hear people say, "Well, won
der how you get into the art gallery?"
Passing into the building from the en-
trance facing the river one finds he is
right, he must without any mistake
come to the official department, where
also is situated the press headquarters
and the handsome exhibit of penman-
ship from the Archibald college.
On the main part of the second floor
is an entrance to the art gallery, and
people should recollect in going in
there, they must deliver up their sticks
and umbrellas, and they receive check
for their safe keeping. A lynx-eyed
policeman is kept busy all day watching
The government exhibit is on this floor
in the ante-room, just off the stairs, and
is well deserving of visit, being
about the most instructive place
in the whole show. On this floor
there is also placed the tobacco
and cigar factory which always attracts
attention; the handsome exhibit of the
barrow company, the carriage people,
where the pony track delights all those
fortunate enough to see it; the interest
ing exhibit from the state school at
Faribault, Mimi, for people of feeble
minds where some handsome work is
exhibited done by these imbecile people
in the line of brushes, woodwork and
ornamental work in silks and various
clothes. Here on this floor is
sold the fac smile copy of
the Oldest paper in the country
by a lady and gentleman dressed in the
costume Of 100 years ago. The splendid
collection Eof prints from the United
States Patent office is deserving of far
more attention than is paid it, as
they are beautifully engraved, hand
Somely mounted and very interesting. as
showing the wonderful strides that have
been taken within late years in every
art and device of humanity. These and
a thousand and one different exhibits
are here shown, but on the third floor
the interest increases, as here is sit
uated the Music hall, where ''Liberati"
discourseS sweet music every afternoon
and evening. One of the most striking
looking things on this floor is the daZ-
Zling glass roof over the booth of Nc
Clelland Bros. The effect of its elegant
brilliant appearance is very fine, es-
pecially at night. Here, too, is the dia-
rama, which is such favorite with the
children; the Striking-loOking fruit
exhibit of the Earl Fruit company, from
California. and many more highly
interesting exhibits and booths, the ma
jority of which have been already de-
scribed in the GLOBE.
THE MANITOBA RAILWAY EXHIBIT.
1t is doubtful whether single person
of the tens of thousands who have
visited the Exposition the past week
has not personally inspected the unique
and strikingly attractive exhibit of the
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Rail
way company on the second floor. And
when one stops to consider that less
than a decade ago nearly
the entire country through which
in its virgin purity and undeveloped,
a surprise that is almost incredible, be-
comes manifest that such mammoth
vegetables, gigantic stalks of corn, ex-
traordinary heads of wheat, oats, barley,
flax and rye, and such splendid, nutri-
tious grasses that constitute the display,
could possibly be from such young
country. Hundreds of aged patriarchs
from New England stand around this
company's display with wonder and
amazement depicted on their coun-
tenanoes as though Just awaken
ing from Rip Van Wrinkle
hending what has occurred in the inter-
val. The exhibit is in the form of an
arcade, built entirely with sheafs of
golden wheat, oats, barley, rye and
blue-joint grass, while the exterior is
decorated with small bundles of wheat
and other grain stalks tied with bands
of bright colored ribbon, and the corner
posts are surrounded with bundles of
corn stalks and amber cane, whose lofty
tassels touch the ceiling. In one corner
of the room is a fan-shaped canopy of
grain and grasses. The center of the
display is ornamented by repre-
church-steeple from whose apex
is suspended large bell,
the entire piece being made of grain
sheaves and variegated grasses. On
one side, arranged in a Semi-circle, is an
engine and two cars, constructed wholly
of grain heads and grasses; even the
wheels, cylinders and piston rods are of
the same material, making a novelty of
marvellous beauty and exhibiting rare
mechanical taste inits construction. The
train represents the special one used by
the general officers of the Manitoba road
when they are on their tours of inspec-
ton. The above is but brief descrip-
ton of the exterior of this most extra
ordinary exhibit, while personal in
Spection is necessary to conceive the
fullness of its beauty and mechanism.
The interior and along the sides of the
arcade are displayed in great quantities
specimens from the vegetable, mineral
and animal kingdoms that constitute
what is known everywhere as the
famous Red river valley, which the
Manitoba road has so thoroughly devel-
oped that it only requires a tickling of
the ground with hoe to produce a har-
vest. Here are vines bearing luscious
punches of the Concord, Catawba and
Delaware grapes from the vineyard of
George A. Camp at Minnetenka Beach,
with huge yellow pumpkins, beets and
corn to represent the prolifcness
of his garden spot. There is
an extensive collection from the
vegetable world by A. NJ. Fridley
of Anoka county, consisting of water
melons that tip the scales at fifty-seven
pounds, pumpkins, carrots, squashes,
corn, etc. Then all observe with sur
prise the unsurpassed collection of
grains and grasses grown in Douglass,
KittSon and Marshall counties in the
Red river valley, while the eye is dazed
at the specimens of wheat, oats, barley,
rye and blue joint, red top and Hun
garian grasses that occupy glass jars
and sacks and hang in festoons around.
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